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A 1'aily Ivcmlp(ti-41in, 1Devoted to Li-terat aire, Miscellany, 7ews, Agriutre akes c Vol. X. WEDNESDAY MORINTG, NOVEMBER 18,184No47. TH~E H ERALD IS PUBLISHED EVER~Y WEDNESDAY MORINING, At Newberry C. U-!P BY THOS, F. GRENEKERt Editor and Propiel or.0 Terins~, $2.5per siiIMMIJ InVariab'Ay iu Advau2e. Kc- The paver is qtopped at the expirat ion of time f6r which it is paid. The ;A mark denotes expiration of sub ceription. JANETT1'., HAIR. Oh, loosen thesucod0( that you weair,Janette Let me tangile my hawld in your hair, my pet For the wiorld to mte h:id nto daintier sighit Thin yonr brown ha ir veilinigyour shoulders white,, As I tangled my hand in your hiair, iny p,:t. It was brown with a gold;,n gl~,Jan-tte It was finer than silk of the flu-s-, mny pet; 'Uwas a beautiful mist faizgdown to your wrist, 'rwasa t1iing to b brai,1ed and jeweled and kissed, '.rwa.s the loveliest hair in the world, my pet. My arm was the arm of a el)wn, .Jane,tc, It was sinewvy, biste d and brown, mny pet,i But warmly and softlyv it loved to c.-.ress Your round. white neck and your weAth of tress, Yonr be:autifu! plent.y of hair, u)y pet. Yonr eyes had a swimming gloss, Janette, Revealin the dear old storyv, mv pet, They we .re -ray, with that chastened tin-e of the sky, When the trout leaps quickest to snatch the And they m--tched with your golder hair, my pet. You r lipi-but I have no %% ords,3 .anett.. They were as fresh as the t Yi'* Lr of birds, I my pet, When ih.spring is young anid the roses arc Wet With:dew drops in e'ih r(:d bosomii.et. Abid'hey-suitel your gold-brown hair, my .-pet. tautifuil bright iuo ning W e mouMlited on caes but the ser. Vanis ambled along on t!h:-. swall, tog Aabi:m horses4 commrnon to the countrv. "W were all in the ighsspir its as w.e. glidud over the smlooth. glitteiing surface of the deset. We hAd made our preparations to rmain a night and a day for tlh. purpose of shooting the noble game. and toward sunset the litte oasis, with its tall, waving palns, fragrant dates, and luxuriant growth of grass. greeted our vision with a peculiarly agreeable sensation. The large tro p~cal foliage, the vivid colors and the numerous voices of feathered songsters struck me as something wonderful and strange, surounded as the little spot was on all sides by boundless acies of burning, sandy desol.-tion. "We had been ridin since morn ing in the hot sun, and had not in dulged in a mouthful since partak ing of .n early breakfast. I felt both tired, hungry and thirsty as I dismounted, and glanced with satis fac:ion at Selim. the black cook, who had kindled a fie. and was busily engaged in preparing olr evening meal. "A fine spring kf water flowed from the interior of :Ue oasis, spring ing from the midst of a pile of rocks that had been cast up by sonie great c3nvulsions of nativoa in by-gone ages. The spring of water foiried the great attraction to the numer ous wild beasts that roamed over the Great Desert, and in conse quence the oasis had become a noted resort for hunters. "Selim. with the true tastes of a native, had shouldered his gun and wandered back into the bush a few yards, leaving his assistant to look after the details of the repast. The captain.major and the merchant had wandered off together, and were hidden from -iew by a iidge of sand hills that had been formed by the wind, which at times blows with great violence. "Catching up my rifle, I followed the footsteps of Selim. who was some little distance in advance. His eapon was a fowling-piece, and he as in hopes to obtain a sufficient umber of birds for suppgr. "Suddenly a sharp, piercing a.nd errible roar resounded through the solitude of the desert, and was e echoed in deep,. reverberations from the numerous gullies and hasms in the rocks. "Selim started back, glancing keenly about him. He was an old' hnd at tiger shooting, and proba bly forgot in his excitement that his weapon was only a bird-gun. As for myself, the roar of the savage beast was so unexpected, so unhook d-for at that early hour, that I stood transfixed with amazement, nable to move a muscle. "Soon I heard a rapid movement, the crackling of twigs, and the rus le of dried leaves, followed by a :eep hoarse growl of rage. "With a powerful bound, a tiger sprang from under cover of the bushes, which he broke like a straw in his impetuous course. His ears ere drawvn back, hair bristling, nd mouth open, fromi which pro trded his tongue, covered with a hite frothy foam. The eyes of the brute were starting from his head and flashing fire, as lie rushed toward Selim, who, cahn, cool and motionless as a statuo carved from ebony, waited for a favorable oppor tunity to deliver his firc.I "I had recovered my self-posses sion by this time, and, without the sightest fear as to the result, watch ed the ferocious beast as he rapidly neared the large formi of the negro. In the hurry and bustle of the ex citement, I, too, forgot the nature of the native's gun. I could hear the hear the shouts of my friends as they hurried toward the camp, alarmed by the iroars of the tiger, who was now within thirty yards of Slim. "R~aising his piece, he fired one barrel; the tiger sprang into the air, and the second report came, followed by a frightful cry of ter ror. The fine bird-shot had lace rated and stung the ferocious beast into a degree of frenzy without in flicting any serious injury. In a moment I realized the man's peril, and the fatal mistake he had made ; but all too late. My heavy rifle was to my shoulder, but the tiger was quicker in his movements than 1. "A cry of agony rang through the air, and the beast sprang upon his enemy before I could deliver my fir. My finger pressed the trigger with a nervous movement, but I dared not fire. for thc man and tiger wer so entangled in their writh Iings, that I was fearful of missing my mark. "Springing forward, I was soon Iin close proximity to the growling animal. The tiger, with his eyes Ion fire, his mouth all bloody and covere with atoms of quivering esh his tail switeling rapidly to e and fro. aballoled the motionless t body of the unfortunate Selim. and t< prepared to pr0ng upon me. a: .It Was my frst experi :nce with p an African liger, although I had w hunted them of,aen in the jungles of a Idia: but I had heard the shous of my friends approaching on a run, w and the fact braced my nerves, fill- n< ing me with confdence. Both of t mV shots followed one another in p rapid Succession. I had aimed at vi the brute's heai'rt, and. dropping the rz rifle, I drew Imy revolver as Ia s ast resort. The tiger launched himself I into the air, his paws extended and A teeth gleaiing in the (1im twilight ti but I jumped aside in time to avoid m the charge, and the dying brute m rolled at my feet, tearing up the in grass and dirt with a last expiring tl "My three companions appeared upon the scene at that ionent, and h the tableau would have formed a b( wild, mournful, but striking subject si for an artist. "In the centre of the group was cr( the large tawny carcass of the tiger; G further on the mangled corpse of poor Selim, stretchled on the green- m sward dyed with his life-blood, b( with the dark Shadows of the trees bi ttnd underbrush for a back-ground. ri We buried him beside the clear, running stream, and the tragic i event was soon forgotten, at least m; by the Frenchmen. A negro's life is not considered of much impor- al. tance here on the coast. co -At supper the laughter and flip- gr pant jokes of my comrades grated rather harshly on my ears. I hi: had not forgotten the horrible nc event so lately enacted. In fact, in my absence of mind nearly cost wf me my life, and I had a narrow 3e escapo from sharing the fate of the lo' lack. P1i We had taken our respective sta- th, tions, iifle ill hand, waiting for our tej ame to steal forth from their hid ing-places. Night is the favorite hl time for beasts of prey to prowl lei over the desert in search of food or m: water, and our patience was not se- thi erely taxed, I can assure you, he I had chosen a small clump of pa bushes, a short distance from the fre ;pring, where I had a clear, un roken view of the desert. I was th tartled b:y the great change that wt. ad taken place in the appearance Iag f the weather. The moon had isen far above the horizon, envel- ho ped in a light yellowish mist. The as sars were comp~letely hliddenl from i iew b)y a gauzy vail of the same hue, and a (lark cloud of threaten- an ig appearance was rapidly rising foi aong thle whole extent of the cast- an ern horizon. The air had suddenly thl ecome hot and oppressive ; a fine, subtle dust that appeared to fly in edi he atmosphere annoyed me exceed- su n'.'iy. It was very evident to my I nin?d that we were to hlave a storm or pa Ilmrricane that frequently sweeps da over the vast desert with such ter- ra; ific force and fatal violence. th "I was on the point of seeking ch my friends, in order to confer with hem, and had. in fact, advanced n everal yards from my cover, when, m ithout a moment's wvarning or pre- id< paration, I found myself confronted tic by an enormous tiger. of "Like a thunderbolt he had leap- of d from the bushes, and the shadow de ast by his large body extended far wt ut into tIhe desert. The brute was wi rouching for a spring, his head su ested between a pair of formidable m< paws, an?d his eyes glowed like coals f fire in the p)ale yellow light of all the moon. tir "Of course I was startled, as tic ost any man would have been in its like position, but the instinct of cu self-perervation more than the ca force of reasoning caused me to h brng my rifie to my shoulder. I ac pulled both triggers in rapid suc ession, but with a sharp click the th L ammiers fell on bare nip)pies. el< "With a sense of sickening hor-jI th ror it flashed through my brain that mn I had noglected to reload my rifle af- cli tr shlooting the brute that had been the cause of Selim's death. Ib( "Before I could grasp the revolv- jhi ers in my belt, the tiger was upon jw. me. I felt his hot, fetid breath cr upon my cheek, was unconscious of bi the sharp claws and shlarper teeth piercing my flesh, for one brief mo- ti ment heard the shouts of alarm and ht horror from my comlrades, then all ra was darkness and oblivion. I had in fainted. g "When I regained consciousness, tc I found myself on the back of the anmal which was trotting at a rap- ;I id pace toward a series of sand-hills vi which I have before mient'oned. ol S"A portion of my strong shoot-I ing-coat was firmly grasped in the ri tiger's capacious jaws, and at everya step the brute growled as if impa- s1 tient to commence hlis meal. a I"Now, I shall not attempt to de scribe the sensations I experienced a: while in the very jaws of death, but, si strang as i may appear to you, 13 tptaifl, I did noLt feel a thiill of ,rror. The shock I had rec(-ived )getlher with the loss of blood id severe p'in of my wounds. h11a liuced a stlpor similar to that hich sewms to bo felt by a mouse ter the first shake of a cat. it .used a sort of dreaniaess, in hich there was no sense of pcin )r feelinr of terror. though I was i:te conscious of all that was hap ming. Death appeared to u ine table, and I remained motionless, signed to mv fate. "Then the thought struck me that had a pair of revolvers in my belt. iray o hope partialiy di;;pelled .e languid stupor that enchained y brain. My blood flowed through y veins less sluggishly, and, grasp g one of my weapons, I pointed .e muzzle in the brnte's car and -ed the six charges. -I felt the tiger shake violently, s teeth ground together as lie >unded forward, and pawing tiL nd in a dying effort, lie fell over ad. His jaw relaxed, and I stag red to my feet free, and thank od comiparatively unharmed. "The teeth and claws of the ani al had plowed deep furrows in my dy and torn the skin in shreds, t the wounds were not of a se mus nature. "I ft-It weak from the loss of ood, but was enabled to bind up I V wounds and stop the flow. "Then for the first time I glanced out me, wondering what had be-' me of my friends, and if they had ven me up for lost. "The moon had disappeared be id the black dense cloud that! w covered the entire horizon. So ense was the darkness that it s impossible to distinguished ob- K ts but a few feet distant. A hol v murmur in the light moviiig ffs of air reverberated through a heavens like the distant mut of thunder. "Without further warning. the I rricane burst with fearful vio Lee, hurling showers of sand into r face, forcing me to lie beside 7 body -of the tiger, while my d was thrust bene2fh one of his i ws in order to breathe somewhat er.< The burning sand forced itself'a :ough my clothing, inflaming my >unds, and increasing tenfold the( ony I already experienced. "I hardly ventured to breathe the t, fiery blast which was offered the only means to protract my etched existence. "Frequently I was forced to rise d shake the sand from my b'ody, the fear of being buried alive, d slowly tihe time passed while a simoon raged. "It is possible I may have swoon beneath the great amount of Eering I had endured, for, when again fully realized what was ssing around me, the cimmnerian rkness had disappeared :a few ys of light were strivinig to pirc a yellow atLnosphere filled with >uds of dust and burning sand. "Shielding my eyes from the nute particles that almost drove Sfrantic, I essayed to form some a as to my wherea,bouts and posi n. I had escaped from the jaws thle tiger, had survived the fury a simoon and now to die in the sort from starvation and hunger s a fate almost too hard for one' o had endured the amount of forig that had been sent upon "Moving pillars of sand occasion y swept by me and several aes I was forced to shift my poQsi n. Tile simoon had expended force. but had kift munnb.rless rrents of air nmovingr al,w i aght up vast m'asses of sand, .ling it ini whirling coilmns1 ross the inonenclse plaLin. Grad3ually as the partlticl(es set d, and1 the atmi'osphere. bec-ame ~ar-r, I was enabc-i to survey e sune of the desert, which had i degone a~ rapid and remarkableI ange. I "Were once~ whole acres had en level as~ a bi!!iard table, huge ils and deep valleys appeared ile furrows and gullies had beenI eated like magic by the fierce eath of the simoon. "My nostrils were bleeding from e roughl rasping of the sand which s been forced into them, and a ging- thirst consumed me. The fernal regions could inflict no cater torture than I was forced endure. "I felt that I could prolong life if could but reach the oasis, and sions of the clear running waters 'the spring spurred me onl. "I was enclosed on all sides by ags of sand that varied in height, ii, rallying my strength, I toiled owly up the soft yielding sides of high mound. "The dawn of tfie m'orning was ready apparent as I gained: the unmit ; the atmosphere was rapid resaaming ita wontad aspect and, looming up through the remaining Obscurity, the welcome branches of the i,ahus on the oasis met my Ca. ger gaze. I now felt comparative ly safe, and, dragging myself along Over the distance that interveneId. I finally reaied the scene of our hunting adventure. "I drank copious draughts of the water, bathed ini its clear depths, rearranged the bandages on my wounds, and felt like another man. with renewed strength and courage. A. low. timid whining startled me, mad you can inagine my dlighot when I discovered one of the horses of one expeditiun had by some rneans been left behind, and was qnictly browsing on the rich herb ge which was thickly covered by thin layers of sand. "I had but little difficulty in :-atching the animal. and, climbing into the saddle, I turned my fhce boward ifisque. I could discover no signs of my friends, and felt con vinced that they had succeeded in raaking their escape, which convic ion eventually proved true. I was n no condition to spend much time n searching after them and, urging ny horse forward, I bade long adieu ,o the deserts and its denizens. "M*ry little horse made good pro ress. flying over the great plain ith an easy motion, and in good ime I rode into the town I found ny friends gathered at the hotel, elating the details of my supposed leath to a sympathizing circle of equaintances, and you can imagine heir astonishment and delight at ny unexpected appearance. I was reeted as one risen from the dead, nd my story was listened to with vonder, while my escape was pro iounced miraculous. "My wounds were properly dress d by a surgeon and although they vere soon healed I bear the scars, ,id shall to my grave. "You now have the benefit of my ast and only tiger-hunt on the cost >f Africa, captain, and if you still lesire to taste of the pleasure and xcitement of the manly sport, you ill experience no difliculty in form g a party." It is needless to add that the sail r's ardor for hunting suddenly ubsided, and he was never heard o express a desire to sport while in oree. WRITING 60OD ENGLISII. tBRANcH NoT TIonIoUoIILY TAUGHT IN THlE sCHOOLs. If we were to assert that not one toilege student in four could write ialf a dozen pages of his own comn >ostion in suich a manner that any yell known printing establishment vod be willing to publish them vithout alteration, it would doubt ess seem to inany persons like a rery stranuge statement. We do not nake this assertion. Perhaps it vould not be true. But if it were nade by any one else, we should > no means feel sure enough of its ncorrectness to contradict it. It s certain that a very large part of ur educated youth of both sexes are unable to;put their thoughtsi on aper without numerous inaccura nes. Perhaps the most frequent errors >f educated people in writing are hose connected with punctuation. hat many mistak~es of this kind are made is not wonderful. There s a good deal of difference of pinion as to what constitutes cer -ect ness in this respect. But the ircustance that it is not always asy to determine what point should e used in a particular place is no -eason for writing as if punctuation 1iad never been invented. If a man s in doubt whether to wear a light oat or A heavy one on a September lay, it does not necesusarily follow :hat he should go in his shirt-sleeves. lihe diversity of theories in regard : punctuation does not render, for nstance, a letter on several inde endent subjects without a single ul stop, except the one at the md, creditable to the education of' the individual who writes it, or to be institution at which he or she as been taught. Another class of errors which ruust be mentioned is that of mis bakes in grammar. These, it is true, ire much less frequlent among young people of education than deficien cies in respect to punctuation. YTet there are thousands of such persons, who would be highly in. ignant at the charge of writipg mgrammatical English, to whom a gentle hint that, for instance, the objective case of the pronoun "who'' Elways ends with an m, or a little instruction in regard to the proper use of the auxiliaries "shall and will," might be of material service. if the more advanced students in som of o-ur1colee rfemale semi narics were each to be required tc write, withtiout assistance, a lottei or a co.niposition of any hind, and if then -what had been writter should be printed without altera tion, and distributed anwig. the parents and friends of the anthors, it would constitute I species of ex aminations of which. we venture to say, few iustitutions would be proudI. Vc by no means recom mend sueh a test. On the contrary, we should denoince an attempt of the kind as utterly heartless and -ruel. No instructor could for a moment be justified in thus ex posing to ridicule his students. But it would be, in some respects an ex cellent criterion if professors and teachers in our higher educational institutions, on perusing the com positions submitted to their in6pec tion, were to ask thomselves how these productions would look in print. And here we would make a suggestion which may be valuable to some of our college students who are indulging hopes of distinguish ing theiaselvesinliterature. Itis of ten the case that if these young men were to submit their experiments in writing to the examination of some good compositor in a printing office, he would be able to give them valuable instruction which their professor of English literature would not, and perhaps could not, impart. At all events, if instruction of this kind is furnished by the pro fessors in our colleges, many of the students appear to profit remark ably little by it.-. Y. Times. 0400 THERE WAS A SPIDER oN His HEAD. -Old Mr. Collamore is very deaf. The other Sunday, in the midst of the services, Mr. Hoff, who sits im mediately behind Mr. Collamore, saw a spider travelling over the latter's bald head. His first impulse .was to nudge him and tell him all about it, but he remembered that Mr. Col lamore was deaf, so he lifted up his hand and brushed the spider off. Hoff didn't aim quite high enough, and consequently, in hi nervous ncss he hit old Collamore quite a se vere blow. The old gentleman turn ed round in a rage to see who dared take such a liberty with him, and Hoff began to explain, with gestures, the cause of the occurrence. But Colamore, in a loud voice, demand ed what it meant. It was very pain ful to Hoff. The eyes of the congre gation were upon him, and he grew red in the face. "There was a spider on your head." "A white place on my head, hey? S'posen there is, what's that to you?"'said Collamore; "you'll know what it is to be bald headed yourself some day." "It was a spider," shrieked Hoff, while the congregation smiled and the perspi ration began to roll off his face. "Certainly its wider," said - Colla more, "and got more in it than yours. But let tit alone-do you mind? You may let my head alone in chrch," "Mr, Callamore," shrieked Hoff, "there was a bug on your head, and I brushed him off-this way," and Hoff made another ges ture at Collamore's head. The old man thought he was going to fight him then and there, and hurling a hymn book at Hoff, he seized the kneeln.g stool on the flMor of the pew, and was about to bang Mr. Hoff, when the sexton interfered. An explanation was written on the fly-leaf of the hymn book, where upon Mr. Collamnore apologized in a boisterong voice, and resumed his seat. Then the services proceed ed. They think of asking Mr. Col lamore to worship elsewhere. If our Maker thought it wrong for Adam to ~remain single when there was no woman on earth, how riminally wrong are the old bache lors with the world full of pretty girls ! They believe in fashion in Tope ka, and when Mr. Williams wouldn't put on a mourning band for the death of his wife, they dragged him through a creek and shaved his head.' A wag, in "what he knows about farming," gives a very good plan to remove widow's weeds. He says a good-looking man has only to say "wilt thou," and they wilt. No man can read about these burglaries without a determination tohave his wife sleep on the front side of the bed If a healthy~ mother-in law can't stimulate a man to eloquence, of what account is wine ? How to avoid sea sickness-Keep away from the water. They have a woman's bathing club in Pittsfield, Mass. Toldos-ft oma-cn'tge Toeo'Warwmn a' gtu I i1)0 FTE iA M IY WE EAT. It has ,en demonstrated that. at certain intervals, when food is received into the stomach, ga-stric jue is serded to Jigest it, and thaIL 110 m0rC grastric jaice is secrc ettd tlhan is required for the diges tioll of the proper quantity of food. If a person eat twice or thrice a day, at regalar periods. the gastric jnice is secrete d by the stomach to digest the fool it has received. If, while the food is being digested more 'food is introduced into the stomach, digestion, in relation to the food already in the stomach, is arrested. For instanee: a person takes, in the morning, a piece of bread and several potatoes; now, it will take about three hours for the stomach to dispose of that food. Suppose the person, about an hour after eating this food takes a piece of bread and an apple or two; what i would happen? The digestion that was going on in the stomach would immediately stop, and not be re sumed until the food that was re ceived last was brought into the condition of the first. Suppose he took food every hour what would be the consequence? The stomach would become prematurely worn out, and could do nothing perfect ly-working all the time without res'-. But if the person possessed a good constitution and a large amount of vital power, he would not feel, at first, this drain upon his system, but sooner or later he would have to pay the penalty of outraged nature. For instance: a person may have a large capital in bank; he can live upon the interest very well, but he draws upon his capital. He does not feel this drain at first, because he has so large a bank account; but if he keeps on, he will become, sooner or later, a bankrupt. Some persons have an enormous amount of vitality--good constitutions. It is said of these persons nothing hurts them.; they can eat and drink anything with impunity. This is a fatal mistake; see how many years of life they are cutting off by such foolishness. If such persons live to the age of seventy or eighty, they might have reached the age of one hundred or more years, by better dietic habits. (Sciene~ of Health. MAY I NOr SMoKE ?-Tobacco is one of the most virulent poisons in nature. It acts not o.nly upon the brain and spinal chord, but espe cially upon the great sympathetic system of nerves, which is the very citadel of organic life, and which supplies the nervous influence re quired by the heart, arteries, lungs, and digestive organs, to enable them to perform their functions. If a small drop of the oil of to bacco be rubbed on the tongue of a cat, it brings on4 convulsions, and death in two minutes ; a single leaf, dipped in hot water, and laid upon the pit of the stomach, or applied to a spot where the external smrface of the skin is abraded, produces fearful and often fatal results.-I Smoking deadens the intellect. Na poleon III. issued an edict forbid- I ding the u,se Qf tobacco by certain classes of students, and this is his reason: He placed a number ofI students, non-smokers, with an equal number of students who did smoke, and, after a year's study, itI was found that the 'non- smokers were thirty per cent. ahead of their smoking competitors. This is a pill,1 for our student who smoke "to di gest." Tobacco smoke also injures the lungs ; and last, but not least, the morals. One cigar a day leads to a dozen ; thence to drinking, its ine vitable accompaniment, and from moderate drinking, to excess, and so on. We might increase our argu ment tenfold, but verbumn satsa pienlti.-ASoience of .Health. GIVE YoLTR CHILD A PAPER.-A child beginning to read becomesde lighted with a newspaper, because he reads of names and things wvhich are familiar, and he will progress accordingly. A e w s paper in one year is worth aquar ter's schooling to a child. Every fa ther must consider that information is con nected with advancement. The mother of a family, being one of its heads and having a mo re im-J mediate charge of children, should herself be instructed. A mind oc cupied becomes fortified against the ills of life, and is braced for emergency. Children amused by reading or study, are, of course, more considerate and easily gov erned. How many thoughtless young men have spent their earn ings in a tavern or grog-shop who ought to have been reading ! How many parents who have not spent twenty dollars for books for their families, would have given thous-^ ands to reelaim a son or daughter who had ignorantly, thoughtless |ly fallen.into temptation. KEEPING THE TONGUE. Ke'p it froln frivolity. There is so much call of the wise use of God given speech, that it is a great pity% and a great evil when its high powers for good are mae. empty and vain. Frivolous speech will react on character. One who habitually uses light ness in conversation will tend to become empty in character, in capable of those deeper motives and holier aspirations that mark the good man. Keep it from unkiidness. Words ; are somctimes wounds. Not deepa wounds always, and yet they ir ritate. Speech is unkind some- I times when there is no unkindness in the heart ; so much the worse tbat need!ess wounds are inflicted; so much the worse that uninten- t tionally pain is caused. How many I heartaches, how much bitterness, I how many estrangements, how t much deep and utter misery, has t unkind speech caused. t Keep it from falsehood. It is so i asy to give it a false coloring, to I make a statement that it may con- e 9ey a meaning different from the < truth while yet there is an appear ince of truth, that we need to be e Dn our guard. The truth is an es- t ential in the dealings of man with i man. Without it society goes ( down. There are, very many who viould shrink from telling a lie, < and yet suffer- themselves in such 1 inaccurate or exaggerated or one I sided statements, that they really t come un~der the c6ndemnation of t those whose "lying lips are an t abomination to Lhe Lord." Keep it from slander. The good reputation of others should be dear to us. It is a cause of sorrow in the whole community when a man's good name is aspersed.- f Sins should not be suffered to go I unrebuked; but it should be in i accordance with the scripture method: "Go and tell him his raults betwixt thee and him alone." And it should be borne in' mind that what is often considered as I merely harmless gossip, runs dan- c gerously near, if it does not pass t the confines of slander. A reputa- d tion is too sacred to be made a a plaything of, even if the intent be j rot malicious. r How ro Gaow FAT.-If any one wishes to grow fleshy, a pint of I niilk taken before retiring at night t ~vill soon cover the scrawniest t >ones. Although now-adays we r ee a great many fleshy females, s ~here are many lean and lank ones f who sigh for the fashionable meas- il ire of plumpness, and who would h >e vastly improved in health and v ppearance could their figures be e 'ounded with good solid flesh.-- d Sothing is mor-e coveted by thin r; ,vomen than a fall figure, and no- ti hing will so rouse the ire, and prc- r< oke the scandal of one of those s: clipper builds," as the conscious- o ess of plumpness in a rival. In b ~ases of' fever and summer comn- I? )aint, milk is now given with ex- ii ~ellent r-esults. The idea t h a t n nilk is "f'evering" has exploded, i, md is now the physicians' great 3 eliance in bringing through .ty- r >hoid patients of those in too low a Sstate to be nourished by solid food. t :t is a mistake to scrimp the milk- s itcher. Take more milk, and buy i ess meat. .Look to your milkman, 3 ave large sized, well filled milk- e itchers on the table each meal, a Ln you will also have sound flesh tnd light doctor's bills. - -+- t Goon-BY.-It is a hard word to speak. Some may laugh that ity should be, but let themi. Iey ~ acarts are never kind. It is a wvord that has choked many ani g itterance, and started many a tear. r P e hand is clasped, the word is a poken, we part, and are out on d hte ocean ot time-we go to meet i gain-where ?-God only knows. c t. may be soon, may be nove- a rake care that your good by be . 2t a cold one-it may be the last >ne that you can give. Ere you " meet again death's cold hand may t ave closed his eyes and chained is lips forever. Abh! he may have died thinking you loved him ] not. Again, it may be a long sep- 3 iration. Friends crowd on and 'j ive you their hands. H o w a lo you detect in each good-by the lI ove that lingers there; and how ia may you bear with you the mem- e ary of these parting words many lays? We must separate. Tear not yourself away with a careless I boldness that defies all love, but a make your words linger-give i your heart full utterance-and if t tears fall, what of it? Tears are not unmanly. One-good trait in Brooklyn girls e is that they don't care to "sass" 1 their parents much before the age of tirteen or fonrteen years. ADVERTISINC RATES. Advertisements insered at the rate of'$.Oo per square-one inch-for first inswtion, and 75c. for each subsequent insertion. Double column advertisements tenper cent on above Notices of meetings, obituaries amd tribute of respect, same rates per squar as ordinary advertisements. Special notices in local column 20 cents perfliue. Advertisements n2ot marked with the num ber of insertions will be kept Im tIl forbid and charged accordingiy. Special contracts mndewt laeae isr,with libernd deductimtson- abbve rates. Done with Xieatness and Dispatch. Terms Chsh. .%LENDER FEET. Pal-isiarl women are noted for AWeir tiy feet, narrow ankles, and ii-eled instep. We learn every lay that the Small arched foot is a ;inof nobility. a'rale that admits f* uianv exceptions. GeneMally, Ihe Wristocratic foot is fineC, slender, lerroui.,delicate; the pleoeian short wnd gi-os,s. The English -bave the. A" foot. [Uhe Russians have enormous feet, Ls heavily attached as thooeijtan )Iepban t. For this reason,4,tis said, hie Russian princess invented train The Americar, women are ac mnowledged to have beautiful eet. The fascinating forms and maa iers of the "ladies of Cadiz; -the heme of old ballads, retain"Ull the mous celebrity. Every one6"ia weard of the dark, glancing 'eyes; heir pretty hands, f9skilleWdl in he "nice conduct -of the -fan-, heir feet dainty.and fairy-like, "(of vhicb a glimpse is ope.of the., last )recious favors acode -olovers' iglis and tears ;" and, More,, IhAA 11, their walk. The beauty of fe-et does not con-7 ist in their smallness so'Mueh asin ?, ,heir symmetry and gracekot out-. -2, a 2 interb2gs ~o ku," in England, are "Peter" of